thomaszander

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by thomaszander 6y ago
The ratio of bad to good posts has always stunned me too. But for the opposite reason. The linked post explains that there is a performance regression in a very rare and specific usecase: creating 100k files in a short span of time. And I&
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by thomaszander 6y ago
GnuNET is one of those open source projects that really is a research project and focuses on getting things right instead of focusing on getting users. There is something to be said for this approach, but personally I'm not sure that 1
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by thomaszander 6y ago
Last week he corrected people on this 'payday' usage, I think this is the same misusage. He is allowed to buy the stock for this price, he does not have the right to sell it for 5 years, though. So he pays taxes based on todays st
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by thomaszander 6y ago
There is nothing stopping you from doing exactly that, and I have. All you do is go to the dir, do a git init, and then regularly you do an add and commit (and push). Really simple due to the fact that all files are just plain text with mar
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by thomaszander 6y ago
I agree with every point you made. A counter-point: I, and many others, ended up funding puri.sm to actually undertake this project. Which included hiring a bunch of people full time to work on the software on all layers of the stack. Today
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by thomaszander 6y ago
The natural consequence of our last 50+ years of ever increasing economic growth is the lifestyle we had until a couple of months ago. The push to improve economic output every year has as the effect that people have left very little time f
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by thomaszander 7y ago
I would fully agree about their main website :) but, yeah, its a website they use to sell stuff. Advertisements tend to work better if they don't get stale. On the other hand, the doc.* website (its on its own sub-domain) is almost bor
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by thomaszander 7y ago
Its a great overall look, but I'd like to add some details to the Qt parts. * he reviewed the QtWidget parts, and the designer for such. This is by now 15 years old tech that has not seen any new development for years. He didn't l
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by thomaszander 8y ago
All very good points and my suggestion is mostly in line with those points. In most decentralized systems there are no incentives (other than wanting privacy, etc) and I agree with you that this lack of incentives has a bad effect on the qu
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by thomaszander 8y ago
Thank you for the advice. I might do a better writeup some in some time, so this is useful for sure.
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Entrepreneurs wanted; Kick starting the distributed economy
2 points by thomaszander 8y ago|5 comments
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[video] Introducing Bitcoin Flexible Transactions(vimeo.com)
2 points by thomaszander 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomaszander 10y ago
People here may know that some bitcoin-scaling issues are being addressed by the Bitcoin community. It is certainly very interesting to realize that todays hardware and internet can already scale quite massively above any need imagined toda
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Today, an Bitcoin node can download and validate 368M transactions a day(zander.github.io)
4 points by thomaszander 10y ago|1 comments
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by thomaszander 10y ago
This may be nice, but it makes me extremely uncomfortable to have this ran by a company on a server that knows my phone number. It looks like its also skipping any sort of encryption and is instead just using sms messages.
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by thomaszander 10y ago
> Bitcoin slumped 5.5 percent against the dollar as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Tokyo, bringing its two-day drop to 13 percent. Prices also sank 6.2 percent on Monday, although it was not clear if that initial move was related to the ha
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by thomaszander 10y ago
Tl;Dr using a better way to structure a transaction we can improve on SegWit in many ways. Most importantly in complexity so we can lower the risk of deployment very significantly. Additionally space savings are better than in SegWit and th
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Bitcoin; What could SegWit look like if it were a hardfork?(zander.github.io)
2 points by thomaszander 10y ago|1 comments
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by thomaszander 13y ago
This service, and it seems by extension namecoin, raise some questions in my mind. It seems to me that you will very quickly run out of useful names and instead get confusingly similar names. It gives the illusion of human-readable, but its
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by thomaszander 13y ago
What do you mean, you generate a default address? Where is that wallet located? Are you a wallet supplier on that website too?
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by thomaszander 13y ago
For all living in the US, proof the story-teller wrong by linking to this video on liveleak on their social media and suggesting their friends and family look at the full 30 minutes interview. Getting to the truth is about hearing both side
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by thomaszander 13y ago
Given that in the USA 98% of the worth is owned by 1% of the people, I'm not sure what you are thinking of when you talk about "fair". In bitcoin we long passed the point where money is created. The only way to own bitcoins n
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by thomaszander 13y ago
The history of the VMs is that many years before there was QML there was QtScript. A Javascript based engine. This got used for Qt4. In Qt5 the V8 open source engine got used instead. Either way, they ended up picking something that was a
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by thomaszander 13y ago
QML was the natural extension of where Qt was evolving to. With listviews in itemviews-ng having delegates that were just a set of graphics-view objects, QML took it one step further by defining it in QML. The effect is really an amazingly